{"id":5824,"date":"2022-12-14T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:37:56","slug":"what-is-forabot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-forabot\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Forabot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About <\/strong><strong>Forabot<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Forabot has an accuracy rate of 79 per cent for identifying forams, which is better than most trained humans.<\/li>\n<li>Forabot is capable of identifying six different types of foram and processing 27 forams per hour.<\/li>\n<li>The robot\u2019s AI uses images to identify the type of foram and sorts it accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Foraminifera:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Foraminifera, also called forams, are very simple micro-organisms that secrete a tiny shell, a little longer than a millimetre.<\/li>\n<li>The organisms have existed in our oceans for more than 100 million years.<\/li>\n<li>When forams die, they leave behind their shells.<\/li>\n<li>Examining their shells give scientists insights into the characteristics of the oceans from a time when the forams were alive.<\/li>\n<li>Different types of foram species thrive in different ocean environments and chemical measurements can tell scientists everything from the ocean\u2019s chemistry to its temperature when the shell was being formed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What are <\/strong><strong>Foraminifera?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Foraminifera are amoeba-like, single-celled protists (very simple micro-organisms) called as\u00a0 &#8216;armoured amoebae&#8217; because they secrete a tiny shell usually between about a half and one millimetre long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/world\/fossil-sorting-robot-to-make-it-easier-to-study-oceans-climate-86538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forabot is a robot capable of identifying &#038; sorting six different types of microscopic forams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}